some kinda movie glitch

[enchance]

While watching a movie in fullscreen, the screen suddenly goes black after 15mins or so. All goes back after I move the mouse like it was some screensaver, although it can't be it since I'm using the flurry screensaver. Could this be a glitch? I've tried Totem and VLC but it's still there. Could it be my ATI card? I have no problems with CF so it couldn't be that as well...right?

[Lolo Uila]

It's a problem with the way screens are handled. As I understand it, the power management settings in Linux affect the default screen, but Compiz & Beryl enable a new screen which has a blanking timeout. I haven't found a way to get the power management settings to work with the Beryl/Compiz screen manager, but you can disable the screen blanking completely by adding the following to the end of xorg.conf (if you already have a "ServerFlags" section, then just add the options).

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Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	"BlankTime"	"0"
	Option	"StandbyTime"	"0"
	Option	"SuspendTime"	"0"
	Option	"OffTime"	"0"
EndSection

Aloha, Tim

[enchance]

It's a problem with the way screens are handled. As I understand it, the power management settings in Linux affect the default screen, but Compiz & Beryl enable a new screen which has a blanking timeout. I haven't found a way to get the power management settings to work with the Beryl/Compiz screen manager, but you can disable the screen blanking completely by adding the following to the end of xorg.conf (if you already have a "ServerFlags" section, then just add the options).

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Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	"BlankTime"	"0"
	Option	"StandbyTime"	"0"
	Option	"SuspendTime"	"0"
	Option	"OffTime"	"0"
EndSection

Aloha, Tim

Backed up xorg.conf and appended those lines. Will let you know if i works. I had a feeling it had something to do with Compiz.

[enchance]

It's a problem with the way screens are handled. As I understand it, the power management settings in Linux affect the default screen, but Compiz & Beryl enable a new screen which has a blanking timeout. I haven't found a way to get the power management settings to work with the Beryl/Compiz screen manager, but you can disable the screen blanking completely by adding the following to the end of xorg.conf (if you already have a "ServerFlags" section, then just add the options).

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Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	"BlankTime"	"0"
	Option	"StandbyTime"	"0"
	Option	"SuspendTime"	"0"
	Option	"OffTime"	"0"
EndSection

Aloha, Tim

Hey, I think it worked!